While Googling for new information about CinemaDNG, to help me update the Wikipedia page I had created, I found this book for sale: CinemaDNG: Adobe Systems, Open format, Metadata, Digital Negative (file format), Tagged Image File Format, Extensible Metadata Platform, Material Exchange Format, Raw image format Its “Product Description” was familiar – I had written most of it for Wikipedia! The “authors” (if they can be called that) have copied material from Wikipedia and elsewhere, compiled it into a book, and are selling it for more than £20! I also wrote some of the material on the Wikipedia pages for . . . . . . . . . . [Read complete post]

I just found this unexpectedly, while researching revisions to the Wikipedia page for CinemaDNG that I created a couple of years ago. Adobe gave an informative presentation at Siggraph 2010, first about DNG, then about CinemaDNG which is based on DNG. Here is the front slide: And here is slide 12: I’ve known for a long time that some of the information I’ve published about DNG exceeds anything Adobe have published. It is good to see that Adobe acknowledges this. Adobe: The CinemaDNG Initiative (PDF) Wikipedia: CinemaDNG Barry Pearson: Articles about DNG

Wikipedia: OpenRAW. I’ve previously blogged about OpenRAW: DNG part 3 – The tragedy of OpenRAW Here are articles on my website about OpenRAW: The tragedy of OpenRAW (life and death of OpenRAW) OpenRAW and DNG (attitudes towards DNG) Dialogue with Juergen Specht (OpenRAW’s anti-DNG proponent) Commentary on “DNG is not the answer” (about an article from Stuart Nixon) Commentary on “RAW format, the captive photo” (interviews with Dave Coffin and Juergen Specht) This is just the second page I’ve created. The first was – Wikipedia: CinemaDNG.

This is one of a set of 4 articles about DNG: DNG part 1 – Seven years of writing about Digital Negative Format DNG part 2 – Timeline for the Digital Negative Format DNG part 3 – The tragedy of OpenRAW DNG part 4 – (this article) Brief summary of archiving Requirements There is a need to be able to archive raw image files. This may be so that photographers and their descendents can retrieve images of personal importance in future, or so that images of wider historical importance can be retrieved. Archiving is not the same as backing-up, although . . . . . . . . . . [Read complete post]

This is one of a set of 4 articles about DNG: DNG part 1 – Seven years of writing about Digital Negative Format DNG part 2 – Timeline for the Digital Negative Format DNG part 3 – (this article) DNG part 4 – DNG is the ONLY archival raw file format OpenRAW was born on 25 April 2005. It had the objective “Digital Image Preservation Through Open Documentation”. It was brain-dead within two years. It sometimes twitches and causes grief for those who ponder “what might have been?” Juergen Specht helped create OpenRAW. He also helped kill it. Pregnancy OpenRAW evolved . . . . . . . . . . [Read complete post]

This is one of a set of 4 articles about DNG: DNG part 1 – Seven years of writing about Digital Negative Format DNG part 2 – (this article) DNG part 3 – The tragedy of OpenRAW DNG part 4 – DNG is the ONLY archival raw file format This provides a mixture of the dates of significant events (such as “the first X”) and various counts of usage at the anniversaries of the launch (each 27 September). Counts of products and companies that use DNG in some way are provided primarily for illustration. They are approximate, and include products . . . . . . . . . . [Read complete post]

This is one of a set of 4 articles about DNG: DNG part 1 – (this article) DNG part 2 – Timeline for the Digital Negative Format DNG part 3 – The tragedy of OpenRAW DNG part 4 – DNG is the ONLY archival raw file format This article provides the background to over 30 web pages I have written about DNG up to the end of 2010. For most of that time, my pages were the most comprehensive information about DNG outside the Adobe website. They even contained a lot of information that was not available on the Adobe . . . . . . . . . . [Read complete post]